Car replacer



12, 1939- w. B. BOONE I 3,

GAR REPLAC-ER 1 Filed Jan. 26, 1938 2 Sheets- Sheet 1 INVENTOR Dec. 12, 1939. w. B. BOONE CAR REPLACER Filed Jan. 26, 1938 t 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS WITNESS Patented Dec. 12, 1939 I umTEo-sTATEs PATENT OFFICE The invention relates to car replacers and more particularly to railway ,rolling stock rerailers,

The primary objectof the invention isthe pro.-, vision of a device of this character, whereinthe,

same is adaptable for clamping to a rail of railway trackage either inside or ouside of said rail so that the locomotive or a freight or passenger car can be readily rolled onto the track when becoming derailed withoutliabilityof damaging l the flanges of the wheels during rerailing of the same, the device being of novel construction to assure replacing of the locomotive or ear-[upon the track with dispatch.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character, wherein the same isv susceptible of being conveniently fixed in position and held firmly in such position to avoid-displacement when in use for rerailingpurposes of rolling stock uponthe rails of atrack. A further object of the ;inven tion is theprovision of a device of this character, which is simple in its construction, thoroughly reliable and efiicient in operation, portable, easyof applica: tion and removal to trackage, strong, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture. I 1

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features ofconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts'as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which disclose the preferred and modified forms of embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings: I, Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan view of the rail of a railway track showing a carreplacer constructed in accordance with the invention in association therewith. Figure 2 is a side elevation with the clamp partly in section.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view sponding parts throuhgout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings in detail, A designates generally a portion of a track rail and B a portion of a railway carwheel or locomotive 5, wheel, respectively, these being conventional and as usual the rail is a part of a track supported upon cross ties, a portion of one of the same being indicated at H], these being illustrated merely to show the application and the use of the 10" car replacer constituting the present invention and hereinafter fully described.-

In Figures 1 to 4 inclusive of the drawings there is illustrated a car replacer generally indicated at C for use at the outer side of the rail A when 15 replacing or rerailing a car upon the track and includes an elongated body H cast or otherwise formed from metal having' built therewith at one longer edge a vertically disposed abutting wall respect to each other laterally in an outward direction from the wall l2, and said steps 'or risers slope reversely to each other toward opposite ends of the body from a transverse median area I6 in a longitudinal direction of said body. The

reversely sloping extent of the steps or risers converge toward the wall l2 and merge into the median area I 6 to present guide shoulders I! and I8, respectively, at the top or upper side of r the body II for directing the rail flange; and 35 the wheel B bearing the same onto the rail A when rolling upon the reverse slopes incident to the. steps 13, I4 and I5, Y r v The step [5 at the area l6 has the shoulder |8 common thereto in continuity with a substantial- 40 'ly V-shaped deflector nose 20 confronting a depression 2| next thereto and created in the steps l3 and M to benext to the rail or the wall l2 of said body while at the merger points of the said steps l3 and M with the depression 2| are upwardly arched bulges 22 which are at a height above the plane of the tread face of the ball of the rail A so that the flange [9 of the wheel B will clear this tread of the said ball of the rail when the wheel is rerailed or replaced by the shoulders I! and I8 from outside of the track having said rail in the use of the said body I I when placed at the outer side of the track and anchored by suitable spikes 23. These spikes 23 are passed through suitable holes in an anchoring 55,

flange 24 formed on the body H. The body H is clamped firmly to the rail A through the use of a clamping hook 25, its shank being passed through a receiving slot or opening 26 provided in the outside vertical wall 2'! of said body ll, the latter being hollowed at 23 inwardly from the bottom side thereof. The shank 29 of the hook 25 accommodates in a clearance 3! a retaining key 3| and in this manner the hook 25 is fastened in the body I! in hooking engagement with the rail A and thus clamping the body I l firmly to the rail.

The wheels B ride onto the steps at the top or upper face of the body H from either end of the latter, these being the entrance ends of said body for the wheels of a railway car or locomotive.

In Figures 5 to 8 inclusive of the drawings there is shown a modified form of car replacer or rerailer D, being a companion to the replacer or rerailer C hereinbefore described, and is adaptable for placement of the car wheels onto the rail A when these wheels are derailed and are disposed between the said rails of the track or within the latter.

The replacer D includes a body 32 having the vertical abutting wall 33 at one longer side thereof which is engaged with the rail A at the inner side of the same between the bail and base and held against the vertical web of said rail while the top of this body 32 has the spaced steps or risers 34 and 35, respectively, these being next to the opposite longer edges of said body and are reversely sloped in the direction of the opposite ends of the body on'opposite sides of a transverse median area 36 of said body where there exists a hollow or depression 3? and a deflector nose 38, respectively, these being in confronting relation with the hollow or depression 3'? next to the rail A. The steps 34 and 35 through the formation of guideways 39 and Gil, respectively, present guide shoulders ll and :52, respectively, to said steps, these opening into the depression 3i to merge thereinto, the ways 33 being substantially parallel with the rail A and at the outer ends thereof come flush with the step 34 while the.

ways 60 inwardly converge in the direction of the rail A and meet the nose 38 while the said ways at their outer ends open through opposite ends of the body 32. The body 32 is clamped to the rail A similarly to the body I! and alsois fixed to a cross tie corresponding to the fixing of the said body ll. These replacers C and'D, companions when in use for replacing or rerailing a car upon a track, will assure the passing of the wheels both within the track and outside of the same onto the rails thereof without damaging the flanges of the wheels and the replacing or rerailing is had in two directions by the rolling of the wheels onto the bodies H and 32 from either end thereof.

What is claimed is:

1. In a replacer of the kind described, a pair of elongated block-like bodies for disposition, one at the inside of a track rail and the other at the outside of the said rail, each formed with a raised medial portion and reversely sloping portions at opposite sides thereof, steps in successive elevation relative to each other including treads and risers formed on said portions and converging toward a rail next to the side of one of said bodies and gradually diminishing in the direction of the said medial portion, a concaved area formed in certain of said steps and located at the medial portion inwardly to the remaining step, and a deflector nose formed at the remaining step and within the medial portion and directed toward the concaved area.

2. In a replacer of the kind described, a pair of elongated block-like bodies for disposition, one at the'inside of a track rail and the other at the outside of the said rail, each' formed with a raised medial portion and reversely sloping portions at opposite sides thereof, steps in successive elevation relative to each other including treads and risers formed on said portions and converging toward a rail next to the side of one of said bodies and gradually diminishing in the direction of the said medial portion, a concaved area formed in certain of said steps and located at the medial portion inwardly to the remaining step, a deflector nose formed at the remaining step and within the medial portion and directed toward the concaved area, and guide shoulders present with saidsteps on one body and gradually increasing in size vertically in upward convergent relation to each other.

3. In a replacer of the kind described, a pair of elongated block-like bodies for disposition, one at the inside of a track rail and the other at the outside of the said rail, each formed with a raised medial portion and reversely sloping portions at opposite sides thereof, steps in successive elevation relative to each other including treads and risers formed on said portions and converging toward a railnext to the side of one of said bodies and gradually diminishing in the direction of the said medial portion, a concaved area formed in certain of said steps and located at the medial portion inwardly to the remaining step, a deflector nose formed at the remaining step and within the medial portion and directed toward the concaved area, guide shoulders present with said steps on one body and gradually increasing in size vertically in upward convergent relation to each other, and a clamp for fastening each body associated with the rail.

WILLIAM B. BOONE. 

